Finished the Steve Jobs book about a week ago. Interesting read. Now reading John Feinstein's latest book, One on One. For anyone who's into sports nonfiction, especially college basketball or golf, Feinstein is a great read.

I'm not sure what it is about that book, I flew through the first half, loved it, then I got stuck, had a real tough time with it and put it down. I need to pick it back up. Every time I stopped reading, I felt as if I could use a shower.

Just finished Alan Furst's Mission to Paris. Good stuff, as always. If you are into spy thrillers, particularly set during/before WWII, Furst is your guy. He never takes the easy story - Nazis stealing a-bomb plans or D-Day plans - it's always something a little more obscure. As with most authors, his early WWII books are best, but all are great reads.

Finished Abe Lincoln:Vampire Hunter. I would say it qualifies as decent and interesting... definitely not great. I figured out where it was going at some point and was maybe just a bit out there for my liking. Not bad though.

obhave wrote:Just finished "the Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst. Found it be a very moving and powerful novel.

Powerful??how so?

Spoiler:

The story is truly about someone who is adopted, but a complete outsider. The author uses homesexuality, sex, and class to show this detachment. The Nick uses sex and partying as a way to cope and combat the growing feeling of being looked down upon and rejected. Nick's interactions with the other characters act to de-romantacize the decadence around him and that class of people. I find it powerful just because of the boldness of the author is using homesexuality, sex, and the hiding of ones sexuality to show the terribleness and falsity of an entire society of people.

Non-fiction:Keynes the Man by Murray RothbardA Century of War by John DensonWhy American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism by Jeff RiggenbachWhite Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America by Colin Flaherty

Fiction:The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (sequel to their acclaimed 1974 sci-fi book The Mote in God’s Eye)The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter and Terry PratchettSlave of Chu Kutall by Michael McCloskey